Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper category of master minds of the criminal world have been added more alluring terms. Recently, the press has christened a cake-eater bandit, a maniac murderer, and a radio burglar. In this manner is modern crime dally dramatized for the sake of sensation and presented to an eager public. The tendency is not new in journalism, but rarely before has it reached such artistic culmination. The confessions of "cake-eater" bandits do not usually find a place on the front page of The New York Times...
...implies human descent from dogs) mingled last week in the most heated debate of the present session of the House of Representatives. After three days of it, the House impeached, 306-62, Federal Judge George Washington English on five counts, which in effect, are: 1, 5) Tyrannical, coarse, indecent manner and abuse of power...
...delegation (New York) from getting home for Easter. The Mississippian was obdurate, sniffy. Flashed Ogden Mills: "Its a damn mean thing to hold 20 men here!" Back came the retort: "Get over on your own side. You have no right here. You can't insult me in that manner. . . you dirty, contemptible scoundrel!" Fist?swinging arms?whites of eyes? . . . Members rushed to separate the pair. After several minutes order was regained. Peacefully, the impeachment was overwhelmingly voted...
...debate on the subject, "Resolved: That education is the curse of the present age", was in the informal English manner, and was characterized by the wit and cleverness of the speeches on both sides. The team which clinched the Big Three debating title for Harvard was composed of D. W. Chapman '27, Barrett Williams '28, and F. W. Lorenzen...
...real villian is early in the story, and from the moment Olivia Revell descends her ladder into the world of Jeremy it is obvious that she is his forever. Mystery does not befog this highway, though the author try to build mazes of confusion in the good old romance manner...